There will be a Raspberry Jam at The Hive Enterprise Centre in Southend-on-Sea on the 20th May. The event, which runs from 10am-5pm will feature talks, workshops and other Raspberry Pi-related happenings. More information can be found here and free tickets…
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Create a robot spider using a Raspberry Pi, a couple of kits and CamJam EduKit 3
Mark Norwood is a beginner at hacking and making, so he says, but that hasn’t stopped him from taking on this project to take an off-the-shelf robot spider and control it from a Raspberry Pi. He took two of the spider…
Review of WD PiDrive Compute Centre powered by a Raspberry Pi
The MagPi has published their issue 56 review of the Western Digital PiDrive Compute Centre. The kit features a Raspberry Pi 3, a 375GB hard drive and a custom version of NOOBS (along with a keyboard and adapters) allowing you to…
Raspberry Jamboree 2017 – Saturday, 27th May
Les Pounder and Claire Wicher have just announced the 2017 Raspberry Jamboree, which takes place on Saturday, 27th May in Manchester from 9am to 5pm. This is an unconference-style event which will have two tracks of non-organised talks and one…
Covent Garden Raspberry Jam – 15th April
Hi everyone. Pi Wars is now over! Phew! It means I can get back to blogging regularly and keeping you up to date with all the news from the Raspberry Pi world. On Saturday, 15th April, there will be a Raspberry…
4tronix launches Playground system for the Raspberry Pi
Gareth, over at 4tronix, has been busy of late, developing the Playground system. Playground is an add-on board for the Raspberry Pi, Crumble and micro:bit that allows you to quickly and easily connect up various inputs and outputs using cables…
Prototype retina camera lowers the cost with the Raspberry Pi
Dr. Bailey Shen and Dr. Shizuo Mukai from the USA have developed a prototype camera unit that can be used by opticians to take photos of your retina. Normally, pupil-dilating eyedrops are required to do this, causing blurriness and headaches afterwards.…
Using a real car and a Raspberry Pi as a Mario Kart 64 controller
Self-described “avid hacker” Adam Ringwood has taken realism to new heights by connecting his real car up to a game of Mario Kart 64, running on a laptop. The reading of OBD-II telemetry data from the car’s onboard computer is done…
German inventor builds humanoid-like robot with a Raspberry Pi
With Pi Wars coming up this weekend, I thought I’d share with you a post from Raspberry Pi magazine The MagPi about the GeRo, a humanoid robot that is controller by a Pi. German inventor Johannes Jaegers took inspiration from the Rapiro…
Raspberry Pi-powered pi-top weekend workshop at Malvern College – 11th-12th April
Cat Lamin is running a two day workshop for teachers at Malvern College in Worcestershire in conjunction with pi-top as part of ATI 2017 (Advanced Teacher Institute). The workshop, which costs £225 ex VAT but including accommodation, runs from 11th-12th April.…